her resentment at the rupture of her daughter's marriage, 232;
she raises the entire Fronde against Conde, 242;
opposes the schemes to assassinate Conde, 243;
Chateauneuf, her friend and instrument, is made Prime Minister, 257;
remains staunch to the Queen and Mazarin through the last Fronde,
280.

CHEVREUSE, Charlotte Marie de Lorraine, Mademoiselle de, her projected
marriage with the Prince de Conti, 224;
supreme importance of such marriage, 225;
disastrous results of its rupture, 232;
impetuously proposes to turn the key upon Conde, Conti and Beaufort
at the Palais d'Orleans, 233;
her suspected and almost public _liaison_ with De Retz, 249;
dies suddenly of a fever, unmarried, 224.

CINQ MARS, Henri de, undermines Richelieu with Louis XIII., 25;
his death-warrant, 29.

COLIGNY, Count Maurice de (grandson of the famous Admiral de Coligny),
an adorer of Madame de Longueville, 14;
the dropped letters falsely attributed to him, 71;
as champion of Madame de Longueville, he challenges the Duke de
Guise, 113;
fatal result of the duel, 117;
dies of his wounds and of despair, 117;
scandalous verses on the occasion, 118.

COETQUEN, Marquis de, hospitably receives Madame de Chevreuse when
exiled, 146.

CONDE, Louis de Bourbon, Prince de, arbiter of the political situation
after Rocroy, 80;
his furious anger at Madame de Montbazon's insult to his sister,
111;
hailed by the Queen as the liberator of France, 111;
receives into his house Coligny wounded in duel with Guise, 116;
the state in which he found Paris after his victory of Lens: he
offers his sword to the Queen, 154;
applies himself to giving the new _Importants_ a harsh lesson, 155;
marches upon Paris and places it under siege, 156;
the climax of his fame and fortune as defender and saviour of the
throne, 164;
he tyrannises over the Court and government, 168;
he insults Mazarin and embarrasses the Queen, 169;
his want of capacity for business, 172;
his train of _petits-maitres_, 172;
on the murder of one of his servants he tries to crush the Fronde
leaders, 173;
forces the young Duke de Richelieu to marry clandestinely
Mademoiselle de Pons, 174;
wounds the Queen's pride by compelling her to receive Jarze whom she
had banished for fatuously believing that s